How many students are here?

[Kay]

I've just been reading some more of the postings here, and it seems there are a lot business students around. I was just curious to know where you are and what you're doing.

I'm in the final year of the Robert Gordon Uni, Aberdeen, MSc e-Business distance learning course. I live in a hut in Thailand and connect to the Internet via satellite. :D

[gary]

OK, you win! ;)

[10 Yetis]

Pardon my French... but, WTF!

Youi live in a hut and connect via satellite....?

I have enough problems trying to get me laptop working in Starbucks :)
Are you doing 'Extreme Studying' or something?

[Alpha]

When I was working on a SAP project (many blue moons ago) there was apparently a couple of SAP support consultants in the phillipines that used to sit on the beach all day with their laptop and mobile phones just waiting for problems!!!!!

Now that is the way to do consultancy :D

[Kay]

You live in a hut and connect via satellite....?

Yes. It's quite a big sat dish, and passers-by often stop to look or to comment on it. It cost us a bit more than a hundred quid (sorry no pound sign on this keyboard) for installation, and the monthly costs are about a hundred too.

If you don't believe me, I can post a photo to prove it.

That's the beauty of the Internet. Cheap rent, great climate, friendly people, and I can pursue my interests. It doesn't matter where in the world I am, as long as I can get an Internet connection. :D

[Thais]

If you don't believe me, I can post a photo to prove it.


Oh please do!!! 8)

:D

[Ozzy]

I once read a white paper on INternet growth whcih documents on the development and use of the Internet in the eastern countries.
I dont know if this is still true, but a few years ago it was common for several families to club together to purchase a satelite internet connection and share its usage to make money on software development, web design, etc. Makes perfect sense!

[Kay]

Well, I'm 46 years old and not the most attractive girl in the world. :D

But seriously, if people want proof that I am who I say I am, then no problem. I live a couple of hundred yards (should that be metres these days?) from the Sanctuary Of Truth, in Naklua, Thailand.

I suppose I could make a print out of a UKbusinessforums page and post a photo of me holding it in front of the SoT (or Temple of Doom, as we call it locally.)

I run a forum myself, so I'm not into BS. I think I might have come on a little bit strong here before you got to know me. I apologise for that.

I'll go and change my profile to include a link to one of my sites in my sig. Then you'll maybe realise that I'm genuinely wanting to participate.

I think this is a great forum and I hope to continue participating.

Kay :D

[10 Yetis]

Kay,

before you go off and scale a mountain just to get us jelous people a photo... don't worry... I believe....

I am also worried that with me working in PR, if you get a picture involving the place called "sanctuary of truth", my fingers will turn to stone once the page with the picture on loads.

[Kay]

:D

All this just cos I was interested to know what other people were researching. :lol:

As for the Sanctuary of Truth (try the .com if you want a look), we've been here seven months and never actually been in there yet. I'm always chained to the computer and the Internet.

Kay 8)

[Thais]

Kay - no-one's disbelieving you! We're just interested! And jealous!!

:P

[Alpha]

As Thais said you have such an interesting situation we all want to know about it!!


I notice though that it has all distracted away from your original question to which no one has answered.

Perhaps next time you should keep quiet or just say that you run the business from home :D

[Kay]

Joining a new forum is like walking into a group of strangers and introducing yourself. I'm not very good at it.

Never mind, now I know that you believe my outlandish tales I'll try to settle down and make the most of being a member.

Thanks, guys!

Kay :D

[10 Yetis]

(I saw Kay in Dudley's tesco today, in the exotic fruit isle... ) :)

Could this spark the next "I saw Elvis in...." craze?

[Kay]

(I saw Kay in Dudley's tesco today, in the exotic fruit isle... )

False alarm, mate, I was in the Nervous Wreck bar in Pattaya watching the Blues thrash Liverpool 2-0 .

C'mon you Blu-ues!

Why does a Scot support them? After ten years of indoctrination (erm, I mean marriage) I have little choice. 8)

[Balls]

Its really strange. The head of Trinity College in Cambridge won his Noble prize in economics for his thesis on transparency and democratic government being the catalyst for economic prosperity. (or words to that effect).

Why don't you research the opposite like Thailand, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and China where the absence of western style democracy and transparency as being the catalyst for their prosperity?

The only two dragging economies of Asia are those with democratic government. Phillipines and India.

Whatever you do stay away from Mekong (Scotch Thai style). Its rot gut to the core and you'll never know who did it the night before.

[Kay]

That's an interesting idea for someone doing economics.

I'm doing e-business and by now am half-way through my thesis which is on e-commerce web design.

Yeah, I know about Mekong. Despite it being called Thai whisky, it's made from sugar cane and is really a type of rum.